Mind the North-South gap. It’s still there

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Every leading survey is now showing rising house prices. This week Rightmove raised its forecast for house price growth in 2013 from 2 per cent to 6 per cent. However, do these figures apply nationwide? Is the performance of the North still lagging behind that of the South, whose growth has been boosted by the upward surge in property values in London and the surrounding commuter towns. Or is this divide — which has been a feature of the market since the recovery began — narrowing at last?

What’s happening to the North-South gap?The latest data from the Land Registry showed